Eating orange slices

The other day I had a moment where I put up a post to the blog and mentioned I would later add some pictures. Well, sorry, but I have not gotten the pictures from off the camera they were taken.

However Jason was sitting in his high-chair eating his snack (at the designated chow time, because that is *his SOP*) and he was eating small orange slices while we watched.


So he is really working on using those teeth that are coming in. Lately I peered into his mouth and I could see teeth on the bottom and top fron (maybe 8) and what appears to be a molar for grinding food. Awesome.

Some help with data analysis timelines...

Its not often that I get to post about some of the things I learn of on the job, but this is a pretty exciting one. For a while I have wanted a simplified method for sorting events that happen on computers (e.g., file timestamps, changes to the Windows Registry, event logs, browser use and sites visited) and firewall logs or IDS logs.

Well there is a great tool out the for doing this sort of work called log2timeline but up till now I had problems getting some of the requisite Perl-language modules installed so I have not had the chance to troubleshoot it or spend any time on it. But today one of my coworkers notified me there was a great 'howto' document on the web (here is the link to the site.) It looks pretty well explained and resolves the problems preventing my associate or mine issues we had in the past with installing and compiling it. In fact Chris was excited that he got it working working and we traded some usage ideas. So thanks go to Chris for finding that aid and I owe him a solid in return.

I am thinking I can use the logtotimeline in a small side-project where I can take some of the events in a malware analysis class I took last year taught at SANS. The plan is to capture the attempted call-outs using tcpdump and file timestamps on the 'victim' system and put both of these disparate sources together in a sorted-by-date/time listing. I will let you know how it goes.

Birthday,anniversary, and a Saturday at the zoo

Before I forget I wanted to get a blog posting out today. So today I am one year older and my marriage to my wonderful wilfe has gone on for another year. Whats amazing is that everything seems to go well and make the family stronger at every turn.

I will post some pictures later today but we also had a chance to get out this weekend and take Jason to the SF zoo. Jason got to see the lions in their enclosure and he could point them out, and he got to see his current favorite, the penguins. Its funny that we happened upon the penguin exhibit right about feeding time so there were flocks of the birds all over that Jason could watch and enjoy.

Gotta run and get a few things done today. I will revisit later to post pic and so on.

New Year and new things for Jason

Sorry its been a while since I posted anything on this blog. I have been keeping busy at ho0me and work and Jason is growing big and doing more every day.

He had a great Christmas and he made out pretty well with a drawing chalkboard and a indoor playset with swing & slide as part of the set. He also has been having a ball with a number of book that he got from Santa Clause and a set of jumbo Lego blocks.

So we are into 100 and already into February. It amazing me h0w much time has gone since last post. We've gotten plenty of rain in the Central Valley and its very much needed. But last weekend it started drying out a bit and the weather was very nice. We got a chance this weekend to walk Jason over to the little local park nearby and I am including some pictures of him exploring the grassy field and outdoor playset.